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No. 499,197. Patented June 13, 1893.

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: UNITED STATES ALBERT R. BAKER, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA; META O. BAKER ADMINIS PATENT OFFICE.

TRATRIX OF SAID ALBERT R. BAKER, DECEASED.

' ADVERTISING-BLOTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 499,197, dated June 13, 1893. Application filed September 23, 1892. Serial No. 446,649. (No model) To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, ALBERT R. BAKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, inv the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Advertising-Blotters, of which the following is a specification.

Blotting paper is now made with one side or surface finished or calendered to adapt it to be written upon and to receive a fine grade of printing which will be attractive and increase the usefulness of the vertising medium.

My present invention involves a new use of such paper and may be described as follows:

I take two pieces of paper of the kind de-] scribed and of a convenient size for use in the hand, and place them together withtheir absorbent surfaces abutting against each other, and their finished surfaces upon the outside, and then' secure them togetherv at their margins, and preferably at two opposite margins only, by means of stitching, or in some other suitable manner. The pieces thus se-.

cured together have printed upon them the advertising matter desired, either before or after they are assembled or attached to each other, and may then be addressed in writing by the advertiser to his customers and sent through the mail. The united blotters when received by the customer are separated by tearing off the narrow margin whereby they are secured together, and may then be used as blotters are ordinarily used. The device constitutes a very pleasing medium, as the printing and colors used upon the finished sides may be the most attractive known to the printers art.

In the drawings at Figure 1 I show a plan of my invention partly broken away, and at Fig. 2 a section thereof on the line 22 of Fig. 1; Figs. 3 andtare respectively longitudinal and cross sections of the blotters with sheets of advertising matter inserted between them.

In the drawings A A represent two pieces of blotting paper of a convenient size for hand use, each having a hard-finished surface an adapted to receive printing and to be written upon, and an absorbent surface I). The two pieces are placed together one upon the other.

with the absorbent surfaces inside. They are paper as an ad-- off the margins.

only a narrow margin 0 outside of the stitch- The surfaces a are printed with advering.

tising matter either before or after the blotters are united,'and the device is well adapted to be addressed in ink and, sent through the mails. The party receiving it is enabled to use the sheets as blotters by separating them which may by readily donebe tearing off the margins c or'by runninga knife between the sheets and severing the thread, or by cutting The former operation is facilitated by the perforations made in the sheets in stitching them together, such perforations being in close proximity to each othe and forming a tearing line. t

While I-deem sewing tobe the best means for uniting the sheets. A A, because in uniting them by that method the perforated tearing lines are formed, yet I do not wish to be limited thereto in my claims, as it is obvious that some of the advantages of my invention can be obtained by the employment of other means of securing the sheets together.

I sometimes place advertising circulars or sheets 0 between the blotter sheets and secure them against falling out by the same stitching or fastening which unites the blotters. The sheets 0 may be fastened at either or both ends, and will be released by the removal or undoing of the stitching or other fastening. Any kind of paper or fabric may be used for them as they are covered and protected by the blotter sheets A A sufficiently to admit of their being sent in the mails.-

For the mere purpose of covering and protecting the inserted sheets 0 it is obvious that the outside sheets A A need not be made of blotting paper.

I claim- 1. The combination of the sheets A A, eac

having hard or finished surfaces at and absorbent surfaces b, and placed one upon the other with the hard surfaces outermost and means for attaching the sheets together at their margins, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of the sheets A A, each having hard or finished surfaces at and absorbent surfaces b, and placed one upon the other with the hard surfaces outermost, and means for attaching the sheets together at their margins, the sheets having also marginal perforated tearing lines, substantially as specified. 3. The combination of the sheets A A, each 5 having hard or finished surfaces a and absorbent surfaces 1), and placed one upon the other with the hard surfaces outermost, andlines of sewing for attaching the margins of the sheets together and forming also tearing lines for to Esg in separating them, substantiaily as speci- 4. The combination with outside sheets A, A, secured together at two opposite margins, of inserted advertising sheets 0 placed between and covered by said sheets A and se- 15 cured by the same fastening which unites sheets A, substantially as specified.

ALBERT R. BAKER. Witnesses:

F. 0. 001mm, EDGAR H. EVANS. 

